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Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Travis. I'm sometimes OK. 31/He/Him. Bi™. I don't have many og posts but you can find me talking to random blogs I follow. Metal is great though. Shit Posts semi regularly. CATS!

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[hagiomoto]

Lionel Messi's Ties to Netanyahu, The Israeli Military and Its Elite Spying Unit 8200

Lionel Messi has quietly built relationships with companies and security firms closely linked to Israel's military-intelligence establishmen

As the world’s foremost football star, Lionel Messi is understandably protective of his image. The Argentinian forward carefully picks and chooses whom he is associated with, and has signed lucrative long-term deals with enormous global brands, such as Adidas, Pepsi, and Mastercard. That is why many were surprised when, in 2020, he announced a partnership with OrCam, a relatively small Israeli A.I. firm that makes wearable artificial vision devices (similar to Google Glass). OrCam markets itself as helping visually impaired people live more fulfilling lives. Messi became its global brand ambassador and the face of the company.

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The Argentinian has made multiple visits to Israel during his career. In 2013, he and his club, F.C. Barcelona, went to Israel and Palestine on a supposed “Peace Tour.” During his trip, he met and talked with Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, and glad-handed with IDF soldiers. He also donned a yarmulke and visited the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism. Even after leaving, however, Messi takes a small part of Israel with him everywhere he goes. His security is handled by an elite force of former Israeli agents, who plan his every move, especially internationally. He takes his security very seriously, even missing his sister-in-law’s wedding in Argentina due to safety concerns. Those same Israeli forces were in charge of security at his own 2017 wedding, ESPN reports, although it did not detail whether those agents are from the Mossad, Shin Bet, or an elite commando group.

[trylenareborn]

This is BS that has been debunked a million times. Messi and the Argentina NT refused to play against Israel and Messi went to Israel in a peace tour where he visited Palestine too. Get all the facts from reliable sources, not from sketchy opinion pieces.

[hagiomoto]

So you are ignoring the fact that he invested a lot of money in Israel-linked startups and has former IOF vets in his security team. Gotcha, you're a zionist too.

Not to mention that his visit to Occupied Palestine is hosted by Zionist settlers and Israel. You're a zionist and I don't argue with zionists.

[trylenareborn]

Conflating a paid endorsement deal for an accessibility device with "investing money" is factually incorrect, and claiming bodyguards hired from a private agency reflect an athlete's personal political ideology is an association fallacy. Pointing out real context doesn't make someone a Zionist, it just means they prefer facts over sensationalism.

​On top of that, MintPress News (and specifically writer Alan MacLeod) frequently uses this narrative strategy: taking baseline facts—like standard private security hires or tech founders having mandatory military service in Unit 8200—and weaving them into sensationalized claims of state or intelligence ties to target public figures, media outlets, and tech platforms.

[hagiomoto]

Not only that you're a zionist but you're also an idiot.

[tamamita]

Guy who refuses to play against Israel has no issue taking a photo op with a genocidal war criminal

[daily-bunbuns]

The bunny of the day is ... chip bunny!!!

[itsdanfango]

hot items

[junewild]

incredible innovations on the beverage front

[doomedmutual]

[depsidase]

[greelin]

i am a dog locked in a car in the summer. the a/c is not on. i do not have water. no music is playing

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[depsidase]

[lea-knows-the-devil]

someone give her a beer or smth

[nekosaws]

[yokowan]

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[tondog]

[charlesoberonn-deactivated20150]

You can reverse the flow of Mako if you concentrate

[1beri]

[kyotoprotocols]

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[would-you-punt-them]

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

[jeaninelatragedia]

holy shit.

[frustratedasatruar]

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

[captain-price-returns]

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

Del Monte Foods shuttered its Modesto and Hughson cannery plants in April.